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Anthony Pittore @anthonypittore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I started zoning out next to a ball machine instead of playing catch with my kid It's okay, he just put up a net to catch it while he plays Roblox with headphones on

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

asked a room full of people if they knew what the expression "milkshake duck" meant and not a soul had ever heard it before. 20 people. none of them knew

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Resident Evil is NOT a prequel to Doctor Evil

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

okay it's genuinely cool to see Six Feet Under as high as it is (it should be higher) seeing The OA on the list at all is unhinged but i support it

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i can't decide if i'm more fascinated by "confuses bisexual with transgender" (how) or "doesn't want to date anyone" (did they include a bunch of aro people in their dating survey)

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

like what is the argument for supporting democrats' efforts to flip the senate if doing so means supporting a move to turn into the UK labour party on trans rights

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

what are democrats going to do if they flip both houses anyway, have they articulated any plan to do anything w/ control of both houses? bc if a dem midterm victory would just be symbolic anyway, let them win big in the house & gain in the senate w/o taking it

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i have to be honest i always saw flipping the senate as a longshot & i would rather democrats fail to flip the senate if they're going to cave to republican framing on trans rights. if talarico & peltola keep throwing trans people under the bus, i'd prefer that they lose

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

personally? yeah i thought it was a good movie. yeah i like that they let the Too Many Cooks guy make a movie about evil Barney

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

yes there were little kids watching Buddy (2026) with their parents and yes they walked out, but what's weird is they came back, too

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

it's always two skeletons whose bones are their money telling each other "Exactlyyyy"

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

love when the youtube AI comment summary gives you a real gem

screenshot of a siobhan brier aguilar video where the AI summary of the comments reads, "topic: viewers ztrongly dislike here." it is clear in context that "her" is elizabeth gilbert, not siobhan, but it still looks wild you know

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"we built a product that views your friends as its competition" was already dystopian but this is "we specifically & actively want to take advantage of old people's loneliness" i think we should throw everyone who has ever been even a little bit nice to sam altman in jail

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i keep getting served ads for chatgpt voice with old ladies & now i believe even the janitors who work at openai buildings should go to prison for life

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

even if i had a career which i knew 100% for sure wouldn't be automated away, AI companies are trying to sell the idea that their tech replaces the need to make art & have friends, which is unimaginably bleak no matter what it does to my bank account balance or future aspirations

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i think the fun thing is even if AI proves incapable of replacing anyone's job, i doubt public opinion will improve much on it, bc they made it clear their first automation targets aren't jobs, they're the things people would like to do instead of working

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i've told students that using AI for research is often worse than having it write for you, bc even when it tells you something that happens to be true it disconnects you from the material process of discovering & understanding the truth

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

when i talk about research in comp classes, i always emphasize that knowledge doesn't just exist, it's created by an actual process, & it's not enough to know a fact without knowing WHY people know that fact

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

thought i was going crazy when i kept not seeing this take

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

does anyone else remember Twisted! by Miranda Leek

a drawing of a dragon-like living roller coaster kinda standing on a set of tracks with the moon behind him. text on image says "Twisted written and illustrated by Miranda Leek." It is a self-published book

a later, more well-drawn book cover for the same self-published book. In this one, a dragon-like living roller coaster crawls toward the observer across the tracks with bared teeth and muscular arms. He has gold teeth. There's still a big moon in the background. This time there is no exclamation point in the title

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

just saw 'Ozymandias' posted in full, without line breaks, as a comment in the I Think You Should Leave subreddit. beautiful

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Queeby @queeby.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sorry I got to the "What if AI dissapeared tomorrow" part and felt such an overwhelming wave of peace and comfort at the concept that I didn't care to read the rest.

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

this one seems like a mixed bag. cars have gotten better in most ways but in a few specific ways they've gotten worse too (touch screen controls have been shown to distract people, cars w/ higher blindspots are worse for pedestrians, etc)

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

it always kinda seems like women can't talk about being attracted to men's physical features in any specific way bc some men will get blisteringly angry about it

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I do not wish to debate you on the truth of the point re Plantner, but hear me now, educational attainment is not a proxy for class. Yes whole careers have been made arguing it is. BUT PLEASE HEAR ME NOW. EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS NOT A PROXY FOR WORKING CLASS. JUST STOP.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Several students wrote of the moral confusion implicit in a college that promotes AI and says don't cheat but makes it really, really easy to cheat. One said they don't pay attention to AI policies because they don't think the college really wants to know what's going on. 9/

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

shaking my head while I squeeze the mustard on so people know I don’t approve of U.S. foreign policy

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

yeah i think i liked Disclosure Day more than i disliked it but i was trying hard not to laugh at "how will people believe in a supreme being when there are actual supreme beings?" [video of an alien that looks like a child with consumption]

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i'll never understand why every source, including the original report, takes the finding, "teens want more media about friendship" & treats it like that must mean "& less sex/romance." later, a big portion of teens outright say they think romance is overused, but this question isn't even about that

pie chart reads "51.5% agree, 15.2% disagree, 33.3% neutral" below text says: "in response to: i want to see more content that focuses on friendships/platonic relationships. note: question asked was, "read the following statements and state your level of agreement between strongly disagree (1) and strongly agree (5)"

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i'm very curious about the 7% and 8% not familiar with the 2 major political parties

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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Um, I don't think I'll be going to this particular Dollar General then.

Google Maps showing Dollar General and the description says absorbs into your skin quickly

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

This is important because if we approach the problem as one of misinformation rather than racism, we’re going to spend a lot of time debunking things they’re not actually concerned about, rather than addressing the racism and protecting the targets of it.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026

But yeah, I don’t think they genuinely believe some secret group is somehow throwing the election in Los Angeles; they believe the “right” voters preferred him, so he should win.

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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

these are getting weird

comic depicting tesla cars with bumper stickers reading "anti-elon tesla club," "I bought this before elon went crazy," "vintage tesla, pre-madness edition," "absolve me," "absolve me," "tell me i'm good," "tell me i'm not to blame."

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

wait is the claim about platner calling his totenkopf a totenkopf news, i thought that came out before he even got it covered up

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 30/05/2026

oh yeah I forgot we live in space

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

a thing i like about Boots Riley is he clearly likes twists where the characters find out about secret monsters, but he avoids falling into the trap of ever doing "a small group of secret momsters control capitalism" like the monsters are a thing humans have become or been made into

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i just want movies like this to keep getting made. more from Boots Riley but also more from people who are inspired by Boots Riley. more movies with overt communist propaganda & also stop motion puppets & zany high concept shit

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

does it work? look, Sorry to Bother You is better & more coherent, but I Love Boosters is still a ton of fun. partner & i both agreed we actually understand dialectical materialism less after watching this movie though, & i don't think that was the intention

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

now class consciousness & radical politics are actively positioned as the solution to the protagonist's internal conflict, which is a new & exciting change to the Boots Riley formula

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

he's still using the formula of a protagonist who isn't interested in collective action at the start, + a minor character who talks about radical politics & is vindicated but also static, but in the previous works you get the sense the protagonist is uncovinced at the end

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

both Sorry to Bother You and I'm a Virgo feature radical collective action as a background element which by the end is positioned as correct & important but which is not the main interest of the protagonist or the camera, whereas I Love Boosters is more about developing class consciousness

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i think Boots Riley makes movies with the assumption that his politics are at odds on some base level with the form of filmmaking, though I Love Boosters may be his attempt to break out of that constraint

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Cass Noah @cassnoahwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

bluesky is the place to go for HBO

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